![]() However, you brought up a good point about animation. ![]() While the ISDN lines are wicked expensive, they still offer access to the best paying remote jobs available in VO, so I'll gladly eat the $97 monthly bill to offset L.A. I think ISDN, Source-Connect, and Skype/phone patch have been a huge factor in much of the success I've had working so far down south. (whom I've never even submitted a demo to) for 3 auditions! In fact, I was recently just contacted by one of the oldest & biggest talent agencies in L.A. Great food for thought here! I've been able to successfully work full-time as a non-union VO (without an agent) doing telephony for clients like AT&T, national commercials, web videos & short narration projects working remotely from my home base in New Orleans. However, what's more important is your ability to competently use a home studio and produce equal to better quality audio than the commercial studios of LA and be able to deliver it in real time. It still will come down to who's right for what. I can go to Starbucks around the corner, there's Wegmans, there's now like 5 quality Sushi restaurants within a mile, no earthquakes, brushfires and I live in a safe neighborhood.ĭo I have to do animation? If that was my life's calling, that's what I'd be doing. But I work everyday on something for someone, I've built a business, I've made the connections I needed to succeed. I have LA representation and I have access to national flight spots and other major projects, and I get a few. I can persue my niches from my basement and voice things for clients around the world. However, the technology to succeed in this biz has come home. They wanted to be there and are doing what it takes to be there. They either grew up there or took the other path and stayed there. I visit my mom often and love coming to LA, Mostly because I have friends there from the voice biz. I live in a 2500 sq ft house in a wonderful neighborhood with a 4% mortgage for what must 1/2 the cost of a house 1/3rd the size in Manhattan Beach or Santa Monica. ![]() ![]() I love my hometown, although this past winter left much to be desired. But woulda, shoulda, coulda, means diddly to a 54 year old with so much more to do in his life. Had I stayed, had I persued what I wanted with my college degree in broadcsting, I have no doubt I would have been successful there. But having "lived" an adult life, I saw that it was more livable than the young me saw the first time. The time adjusted my perception, and the place took on the look of all major Amercan cities, except it has the ocean, the mountains, and about 7 or 8 million more people than the last time I was there. I didn't return to Southern Cal for 23 years, when my mom moved to Orange County in 2003. I missed the comforts of family and friends I left behind and made the trek back to my beloved hometown and have spent my life here since. I headed back east about 600 miles to Albuquerque, NM for about 8 months. The daylight revealed endless traffic, some seemly neighborhoods, brown air, and rent that seemed beyond anyone's ability to eat (remember, I was 22 at the time). Palm trees, houses on hills, neon to the horizon. Once in LA proper, I saw a different world from the the one I grew up in In Buffalo. I remember going downhill from the mountains and seeing nothing but metropolitan area for what seemed an endless stretch. I sauntered out to LA in 1980 with a girlfriend who had been accepted to USC.
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